
Dial Services Overview
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Dial Backup Service
Dial backup service lets you configure backup lines for failed primary lines. A
primary line is a leased line, a leased multiline (Standard and PPP only), or a
leased multilink connection. This leased line acts as the physical connection over
which the leased circuit, the logical connection, carries traffic. You designate
these leased circuits as primary circuits. This designation tells the router to
provide backup service if the primary line and circuit fail.
If a primary circuit fails and you configure dial backup service for that circuit, the
router activates an available backup line. When the primary circuit is restored, the
router reroutes all traffic from the backup to the primary and clears the dial
backup connection.
Dial backup is supported on asynchronous lines, (RS449), synchronous lines
(RS449, V.35, RS422, and X.21) and on ISDN interfaces.
Table 1-1 lists what you can configure as primary and backup lines.
Table 1-2 lists the protocols for each type of primary and backup circuit.
Table 1-1. Primary and Backup Lines
Line Type
Primary Any leased line up to T1/E1 rates, including multiline (Standard and
PPP only) and multilink connections. Frame Relay multiline circuits
cannot be dial backup primaries.
Frame Relay PVCs
Backup Any WAN line including ISDN B channels. Lines must be in the dial
backup pool.
Table 1-2. Primary and Backup Circuit Protocols
If the primary circuit’s protocol is: The backup circuit’s protocol can be:
Standard Async or Sync PPP only
PPP Async or Sync PPP only
Frame Relay -- backing up only one PVC Async or Sync PPP only
Frame Relay -- backing up the entire Frame
Relay interface
Frame Relay only
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